The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.